Hospital Terrorist Convicted After ‘Brave Patient’ Talked Him Out of Bombing

A “self-radicalised lone wolf terrorist” who planned to use a bomb twice as powerful as the 2013 Boston Marathon device to blow up a hospital, has been convicted of preparing terrorist acts on Wednesday. On Jan. 20, 2023, Mohammad Farooq, 28, took the pressure cooker bomb to St. James’s Hospital in Leeds, where he worked, and intended to “kill as many nurses as possible.” But a trial at Sheffield Crown Court heard he was talked out of the attack by an “incredibly brave” patient, Nathan Newby, who spotted him as he smoked a cigarette outside the hospital building. Farooq, a clinical support worker, was immersed in “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” but Mr. Newby intervened, initially thinking Farooq had just received some distressing medical news....